To start off, I've included a Halo 3 logo for reference. Since he's into this series of games, I thought an interpretation of this logo, slightly modified, would do as a cake design.
The weathermen had been predicting rain for today, but it had all blown through by this morning. One of the things he'd wanted to do is have a water fight, not quite as much fun if it's already raining!!! Nice weather today.
He had invited several friends, but only three made it. That was okay, they spent most of the day playing Xbox games in their room. The beginning part of the festivities took place in the living room, playing Halo 1 multi player on a few of the computers. Too noisy out here, much more pleasant when they were all in their room. Here he is, opening the Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution game from my parents. It elicited a "WHOO HOOO!!!" from him, that Halo Wars from me hadn't. I called him on that, and he ammended it for that, too.
All three of the younger cousins came, as well as my parents, middle sister and her boyfriend. More family than friends, but they still had a good time. In case you were wondering, the number 6 candle was the only candle we had. Always short on candles, it seems. Also, if you were wondering, the chip in his hand is what he extinguished said candle with, which was likely a good thing, being as he was chewing on the pizza slice in his hand at the time!!!
And here they are, playing Xbox in their room!!! As you can see, they spent all morning cleaning it up!!! I've not made mention, but note the television. In the basement, I have had since I moved in an old RCA console TV, from back in the day when TV's were actually stylish furniture. Of course, the electronics on it weren't working, but I was able to meld it with my old Toshiba Blackstripe and come up with old world styling with space age technology!!! It's not a real smooth transition around the bezel, but I may be able to do something about that, eventually.
Oh, and water fight??? Not as epic as last year's, but there weren't so many participants. My parents also got him a couple of packs of water balloons, which they used several of. In my opinion, some of the best parts were when I got a pot of water and dumped it unexpectedly from the head of the stairs to where they were filling the balloons!!!
